Police are investigating an incident of illegal metal detecting at the historic Lydford Castle and Saxon Town site in Devon. The unauthorised activity, known as nighthawking, involved the digging of multiple holes at the protected 13th Century site, a scheduled monument managed by English Heritage. The site features a 13th Century tower on a mound,...
Tom Jackson BBC News, Cambridgeshire Harriet Heywood BBC News, Cambridgeshire Tom Jackson/BBC The oldest discovery at the site so far is a soft drinks bottle, believed to be from the 1890s, with the words Wadsworth’s Cambridge An unopened Victorian soft drink has been discovered by archaeologists ahead of work to turn a shopping centre into...
Dominant Nottinghamshire ran out of time and had to settle for a draw against Warwickshire after rain took out much of the final day of their County Championship Division One match at Edgbaston. Warwickshire, trailing by 274 on first innings, entered the final day on 163-6 second time around, with the visitors four wickets away...
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Getty Images India’s commerce minister said Indian start-ups should focus more on the high-tech sector India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s recent comments about the country’s start-up ecosystem have sparked a massive debate on social media and evoked strong reactions from some entrepreneurs. At the second edition of Startup Mahakumbh, a...
Myanmar earthquake: Moment rescuers pull woman alive from rubble The number of people known to have died following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar has risen to more than 1,600, with people in some areas telling the BBC they had been left to dig through rubble for their loved ones with their bare hands. An acute...